The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-06-03

toward his visitoss. II vs. : villain.
Gus face. AID one onoe eeen never %
BE- forgotten. He worethe picturssque
dress ct the Mexican freebooter e that
time. and II his ears were . pair Of
enormou gold. hoops, that added to
the savageness Of his appearance. He
stubbotnly refused to answer any
questions asked him, and we left him
In q few minutes alone.
"Well, Luigui le Tampasa VA tried
the next day after his capture. con-
vcted. and sentenced to be- broken ON
the Wheel punishment that
was considered too mild even
to inflict upon the heartless
criminal. Ny two young friends,
the doctors, solicited the Pres
Lido to present them with the body Of
the robber chief after he had served.
bis sentence on the wheel, a. they de-
sired to inspect and study 1t In the in.
terest Of medical science. The Pres
lido seemed glad to make such q dis
position OF the body, and readily prom
ised 1t to my friends. I wa at their
rooms when q couple Of guards brought
the late le Tampasa In. They had Fin
In a bushel basket. When the basket
was turned upside down on the table
the robber chieftain came out Of 1t In
a confused and tangled mass of human
parts. It took some time to disen.
tangle them and s~traighten him out ON
the table. There seemed to be NO bone
in bis body that wasn't either broken
or disturbed. His face was Just as I
had seen It in the cell, and the great
hoops Of gold were in his ears. They
IRE q gift,' the Preside sent word by
the guards. to the young Americans
1.-The doctors said they had seen
some tolerable tough cases in their
brief careers, but that remnant of Lui-
gui le Tampasa was q trile ahead of
their time.
"sWe a never make q manikin
Of him. said one of tina young fellows,
for he's In too many pieces. We
never could wire him together. The
only thing we can get out Of him is to
carve him and make q report on the
efficacy of the Mexican wheel as q re-
Queer of the human France
'.By and by they got out their dis
secting knives and prepared to 90 to
work. I stayed to see how it was done,
As n of the doctors, with his head
close to the late terror's chest, was
about to make q slash there with his
knife. he jumped back as il he had
seen q snake, almost upsetting bis
companion and myself. Then he
stopped quickly back to the table
again. clapped his ear down on the
dead robbers breast, held it there a
moment, and then turned to us with a
look Of great disgust on his face and
exclaimed:
We're done out of our Job! The
Internal scoundrel's alive!'
ssThat struck me as being such a
good joke-life in a man who had been
run through a threshing machine, SO to
speak-that I burst out laughing. As
l was in the midst of my u%nrestrained
mirth my gaze fell on the face of Lui-
gui le Lampasa, late deceased, and If a
laugh ever died quick that one of mine
did. Both of the robber chief 8 wicked
black eyes were open, glaring straight
at me. lttakes a good deal to make me
tcel uncomfortable. as you all know,
but at that moment my knees shook,
and l wanted to go home. But 1
couldn't move. The doctors were a
little ratified themselves for O spell, but
they finally held q consultation as to
what they should do, knock Luigui on
the head and finish him and proceed
with the post-mortem, or help him
along toward recovering a full supply |
of animated vigor. One Of the doctors
was in favor of knocking the tough
robber on the head, and the other
wanted to experiment with him to see
how few whole bones a man really /
could have and enjoy life. I refused
to arbitrate the case, and finally they
tossed a cent-heads, help Luigui ON IN
life; tails, knock him ON the head and
go on with the original job. Heads
won. and the two doctors went to
work to put Tampasa together and give
him a 9 start in life.
"Well, in two months they had the
blood thirsty william with as much life
and vim in him as he ever had. But
he was twisted out of any kind of
shape, and was as helpless as q Chinese
idol. and just about as handsome. They
hadn't taken his big earrings, and hc
looked just as savage, and, a far as in
clination went, seemed to be Just as
big q villain as ever. When the dis
mantled freebooter was convalescent 1t
seemed to dawn upon tho minds of my
friends, the doctors, that they had a
large elephant on their hands. Here
was q man who, by law, was dead.
The doctors did not dare let it be
known that, thanks to them, he wasn't
dead, for the consequence would have
been serious to themselves. They
couldn't find it in their hearts to hand
him back to the Preside, with their
compliments, and request him to have
the gentleman run through the machine
again, and they certainly did not pro-
pose to keep him in their apartments,
no mattel what his value might be as a
piece of animate bric-a-brac. What
were they to do with himp One
doctor proposed that they draw lots
to see who should shoot Tam
pasa, but that was not agreed to. The
other suggested that they put the result
of their unfortunate skin into a bag
and carry IL off somewhere and lose It,
like an Objectionable cat. All the
while this crinnlad villain aaf In tho